Mufti Mohammad Sayeed

Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (12 January 1936-7 January 2016) was the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1 March 2015 to 7 January 2016, succeeding Narinder Nath Vohra (in governor's rule over the state).

Biography
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was born on 12 January 1936 in Bijbehara, Jammu and Kashmir, British Raj to a family of Muslim Indians. He completed his Islamic studies in Srinagar, following in his family's footsteps as clerics. From 1975 to 1987 he sat in the Indian National Congress, and in 1991 he rejoined Congress under President P.V. Narasimha Rao. As a Kashmiri politician, he faced several issues; in 1989 his daughter was kidnapped before being ransomed, and several attempts were made on his lives by Kashmiri separatists backed by Pakistan in their struggle against India. On 1 March 2015 he became Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir following a period of governor's rule under Narinder Nath Vohra, and his tenure lasted until 7 January 2016, when he died of organ failure at a hospital at the age of 79.